The Rivers Restaurant and Bar in Gisborne Menu

STARTERS & SNACKS STARTERS & SNACKS
  • Garlic Toasted Ciabatta $6.00
  • Garlic & Cheese Toasted Ciabatta $7.00 add Bacon $8.00
  • Bread Basket (2-3 people) $13.00
    • Selection of bread, served warm with parsley butter, virgin olive oil and balsamic reduction.
  • Cobb Loaf (1-3 people) $15.00
    • Remember the 70’s . . . creamy bacon, spinach and cheese dip inside a warm cobb loaf.
  • Bowl of Fries $7.00
    • With aioli & tomato sauce.
  • Bowl of Kumara Chips $7.00
    • Served with aioli & garlic butter.
  • Drunken Onion Rings (6 rings / 12 rings) $6.00 / $12.00
    • With our special crisp Guinness batter, served with aioli.
  • Wedges $8.50
    • Seasoned and served with sour cream.
  • Wedges Works $13.50 half size $9.00
    • Served with tasty plum sauce, melted cheese, bacon, guacamole, salsa & sour cream.
  • Nachos $13.50 half size $10.50
    • Served with our own Mexican mince, melted cheese, guacamole, salsa & sour cream.
  • The Rivers “Crate” (2-3 people) $26.00
    • The perfect snack with your favourite drink. 6 each of the following: Drunken onion rings, popcorn shrimp, panko crumbed fish goujons, 100% meatballs. Served with a selection of dipping sauces.
  • Prawn Cocktail $13.00
    • Large tiger prawns on shredded lettuce with our own special dressing.
  • Pub Wings (8 wings / 12 wings) $10.50 / $16.00
    • Tasty glazed buffalo wings served with blue cheese and ranch dip.
SOUP, BURGERS & SANDWICHES SOUP, BURGERS & SANDWICHES
  • Rivers Seafood Chowder $16.00
    • Thick, and filled with coastal seafood served with garlic ciabatta.
  • Soup of the day $11.00
    • Served with garlic ciabatta. Please see Specials Board for today’s brew.
  • The Rivers Burger $15.50
    • Prime beef patty, bacon, cheese & salad greens, served on freshly toasted bun served with chunky fries.
  • Rivers Steak Sandwich $15.50
    • Generous portion of prime scotch fillet caught between our freshly toasted ciabatta, garden salad, caramelised onion, tasty dressing served with chunky fries.
  • Rivers Chicken Sandwich $15.50
    • Generous portion tender chicken breast caught between our freshly toasted ciabatta, garden salad, guacamole, tasty dressing served with chunky fries.
  • R.B.L.A.T. $15.50
    • Rivers bacon, lettuce, avocado & tomato, on toasted ciabatta, salad & aioli and guacamole.
LIGHT MEALS LIGHT MEALS
  • Rivers Homemade Quiche $15.00
    • Served with salad and fries (check Specials Board for today’s bake).
  • Minute Steak $18.00
    • Served with your choice of 2 of the following sides: Chunky fries / Mash / Garden salad / Fresh sautéed vegetables. Top it off with your choice of: Garlic butter / Pepper / Mushroom sauce
  • Vegetarian Fritters $13.00
    • Mixture of fresh vegetables bound together into patties, and served on a fresh salad.
  • Fresh Button Mushrooms $13.00
    • Crumbed and baked, served on a garden salad drizzled with aioli.
SALADS SALADS
  • Prawn Salad $20.00
    • Large shelled tiger prawns nestled with avocado, garden salad and our special dressing.
  • Chicken Caesar Salad $18.00
    • Sliced chicken breast served on lettuce, parmesan shavings & boiled eggs.
  • Greek Salad $14.00
    • Iceberg Lettuce, feta cheese, kalamata olives, red onions, tomatoes, cucumbers with our balsamic vinaigrette.
  • Warm Chicken & Bacon Salad $20.00
    • Chicken breast, bacon, spinach and apple settled on a garden salad with aioli.
  • Warm Scallop, Prawn & Bacon Salad $20.00
    • Seared scallops and prawns seared with bacon settled on fresh garden salad topped with aioli.
  • Warm Beef, Blue Cheese and Walnut Salad $20.00
    • Seared beef tossed through a crisp salad with blue cheese, walnuts and roasted beetroot.
FRESH MARKET FISH FRESH MARKET FISH
  • Fresh Market Fish $28.00
    • Check what today’s catch is . . . and have it: Pan Fried / Crumbed / Beer Battered. Served with your choice of two sides: Chunky Fries / Garden Salad / Scallop Potato / Sautéed Vegetables / Creamy Mash Potato. Check the Specials Board for today’s special catch.
MAINS MAINS
  • Rivers Famous, Guinness Pie $17.00
    • Served with creamy mash potato . . . peas and gravy, what can you say.
  • Rivers Mixed Grill $22.00
    • Minute steak, jumbo sausage, bacon, hash brown, 2 eggs, grilled tomato topped with mushrooms and onions.
  • Garlic King Prawns $24.00
    • A Rivers special . . . king prawns gently sautéed in a creamy garlic sauce with rice.
  • Rivers Pasta $18.00
    • Chicken, bacon and mushrooms combined in a creamy white wine sauce with parmesan cheese.
  • Chicken Calypso $20.00
    • Tender chicken breast coated in golden crumbs, baked, topped with a tangy mango sauce, fries and salad.
  • Bangers & Mash $17.00
    • Chunky sausages on creamy mash, peas and onion gravy.
  • Lamb Rump $30.00
    • Baked honey glazed lamb rump served on kumara mash with garden vegetables and a port and red currant reduction.
PRIME STEAK PRIME STEAK
  • Scotch Fillet $28.00
    • Served with your choice of two sides: Chunky Fries / Scalloped Potato / Garden Salad / Fresh Sautéed Vegetables / Creamy Mash. Top it off with your choice of: Mushroom Sauce / Garlic Butter / Green Pepper Sauce (sauces available with all steaks)
  • 450 gram T-Bone $33.00
    • Served with sautéed mushrooms and onions, chunky fries and a garden salad.
  • Surf ‘n’ Turf $33.00
    • Oldie but a Goodie, scotch fillet steak topped with our creamy garlic prawns served with a garden salad & fries.
  • Sizzling 400g Sirloin $33.00
    • Bought to you on a sizzling platter, topped with Guinness battered onion rings, served with salad and fries and a tub of garlic butter.
SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA
  • Drunken Onion Rings (6) $6.00
  • Side of Chips $4.00
  • Chunky Fries $3.50
  • Wedges & Sour Cream $4.50
  • Fried Egg $1.50
  • Sautéed Veges $5.00
  • Sautéed Mushrooms $5.50
  • Garden Salad $4.50
  • Scallop Potato $4.50
  • Creamy Mash Potato $4.00
  • Sour Cream, Guacamole, Aioli, Tomato Sauce $1.50
PLATTERS PLATTERS
  • Deep Fried Goodness Platter $20.00
    • Wontons, spring rolls, samosas, chicken tenders, meatballs, served up with crispy wedges and dipping sauces.
  • Seafood Platter $22.00
    • Deep fried selection of fresh fish goujons, battered mussels, crab sticks, squid rings, prawn cutlets, scallops and salt ‘n’ pepper squid, served up with chunky fries and dipping sauces.
  • The Rivers Platter (2 people) $36.00
    • Seared chorizo sausage, deli meats, chicken kebabs, local cheeses, crumbed mushrooms, olives, pickles, relish, crackers, and selection of bread.
  • The Delight $40.00
    • A selection of hot and cold seafood: Panko crumbed fish goujons, whole tiger prawns, smoked salmon, marinated fish, mussels, scallop and prawn, kebabs, baked salmon fillet, clams (due to availability some items may change).
  • Rivers Cheese Board $20.00
    • Fragrant blue cheese, reserve camembert, aged cheddar, served with fresh fruit and crackers.
FOR THE CHILDREN FOR THE CHILDREN
  • Rivers Crumbed Chicken Tenders $10.00
    • With fries and small salad.
  • Fresh Fish Crumbed Goujons $10.00
    • With fries and small salad.
  • Lil One’s Hamburger $10.00
    • Bun, cheese, pattie and sauce served with fries.
  • Bang Bang Mash & Peas $10.00
    • Chunky sausage with tomato sauce.
  • Kid’s Pasta $10.00
    • Bacon, chicken and cheese with a creamy base.
  • Rivers Mini Hawaiian Pizza $10.00
    • Served with salad & fries.
  • Mini Hotdogs with chips $10.00
  • Kids Platter (2-3 children) $23.00
    • Garlic bread, chicken tenders, mini hotdogs, crumbed fish, mini pizza, wedges, chips and lashings of sauce.
  • Milkshakes $5.50
    • Chocolate, Vanilla, Banana or Strawberry.
  • Spiders $5.50
    • Coke, Raspberry or Lemonade.
  • Traffic Lights $5.50
    • Orange juice with lemonade base.

Nearby Sample Menus

  • Squid Ring $1.10
  • Seasoned Wedges $5.00
  • Hoki Crumbed $3.80
  • Fish & Tartare $5.80
  • Hawaiian $8.00
  • Special $15.00
    • 3 Fish, 1 Sausage, 1 Scoop
  • Corn $3.00
  • Paua $6.50
  • 200g Sirloin Steak* $25.00
  • Grilled Garlic Bread (v) $6.50
  • Crispy Mushrooms $9.00
    • Mushrooms coated in our special spice mix with aioli dipping sauce
  • Garlic & parsley $4.00
  • Hot Roast Meat Sandwich $16.50
    • Today’s roast meat, sauteed onion and gravy in a toasted long roll with spicy wedges and sour cream.
  • Diane sauce $5.00
  • Thai Beef $23.00
    • Grilled beef strips, salad, crispy noodles and Thai style dressing
  • Seafood Basket** $29.50
    • Lightly battered scallops, crab stick, salt & pepper squid, prawn twister, battered fish,with chips, salad and tartare sauce
  • Garden salad $8.50
  • Thedore Thermidor $26.00
    • Chicken supreme stuffed with salmon mousse herded away with salad, baked potato & thermidor sauce
  • Florence Florentine $18.00
    • Home cured salmon, poached eggs, hollandaise, served with housemade bread
  • Poncho's Parmigiana $20.00
    • Grilled chicken breast captured with tomato & basil sauce, bacon, crouton & parmesan salad
  • James Miller Mussels $16.00
    • Steamed in sambuca & put away in a tomato & basil sauce served with bread-sticks
  • Seasonal greens $3.00
  • Sausage $4.00
  • Cowboys Catch POA
    • Fresh fish of the day
  • Salmon gravlax pickled cucumber, crostini, herbed cream cheese and fennel slaw $16.00
  • Greek salad $10.00
  • Bread, olive oil, balsamic smoked butter $12.00
  • Prawn gyoza cucumber, pickled ginger, sesame & soy sauce $17.00
  • Sesame beef spring rolls horseradish yoghurt & shaved cabbage $12.00
  • 200gm Eye fillet sautéed mushrooms, spinach, buffalo mozzarella and dried tomato $42.00
  • Duck Vietnamese pancake cashew butter $17.00
  • Hand cut fries aioli and tomato sauce $10.00
  • Garlic Bread $6.00
  • Classic Venison Burger $15.50
  • Fries $6.50
    • W aioli
  • ''Surf & Station'' $27.50
    • 250gm Scotch Fillet Steak topped w scallops & prawns in a tropical Cream..... yum!! Served w green salad & fries
  • Warmed Bread & Assorted Dips $12.50
  • Open Chicken Sandwich or Wrap $12.50
    • W blue cheese
  • ''Seafood Basket'' $25.00
    • Seafood selection of mussels, scallops, fish bites, prawns, salt & pepper squid, fries & a small side salad
  • ''Crispy Skinned Salmon'' $22.50
    • Served on a bed of passion fruit slaw w tempura prawns
  • New Season Asparagus $17.00
    • Soft boiled free range egg, crispy bacon, croutons
  • Dark Chocolate Bavarois Cake $12.50
  • Pecan Pie $15.00
    • Vanilla bean ice cream, pecan praline sauce
  • Soup of the Day $14.00
  • Cheese Plate
    • Served with homemade bread & quince paste
  • Crepes & Garden Salad $22.50
    • Blue cheese, spinach & mushroom with pine nuts - Or Bacon & egg pizza style with creme fraiche $22.50
  • Main Special $25.00
  • Chef Special $15.00
  • Salmon rice ball - takikomigohan $3.00
    • Available from wednesday to friday
  • Fisherman’s combination S$7.3/L$10.2
  • Karaage chicken $11.10
  • Comes with salad, rice & pickles (available from 10am)
  • Teriyaki chicken & tuna mayo $3.20
  • Takoyaki (octopus dumplings) $6.00
  • Nigiri combination - 3 piece $5.80
  • Farmer’s combination S$7.3/L$10.2
  • NAVRATTAN KORMA $10.00
    • assortment of garden fresh vegetables simmered in a creamy cashew nut gravy
  • BEEF SAAG $10.00
    • cooked with green herb and spinach puree with lashings of cream
  • LAMB DO PYAZA $10.00
    • spicy curry with lamb and twice cooked onions and peppers
  • MALAI KOFTA KORMA $10.00
    • Indian Style cottage cheese dumplings with nuts cooked with a cashew gravy
  • LAMB KORMA $10.00
    • lamb pieces cooked with a cashew and almond gravy
  • LAMB ROGANJOSH $10.00
    • traditional specialty slow-cooked with tomatoes, yogurt, and spices
  • LAMB NAWABI $10.00
    • mildly flavored pieces of lamb simmered in a creamy cashew nut gravy
  • PALAK PANEER $10.00
    • cubes of cottage cheese cooked with a green herb and spinach puree
  • Today's cakes (see front counter) POA
  • Eggs on toasted ciabatta $10.00
    • scrambled,poached or fried + add any sides bacon/mushroom/avocado/tomato/sausage/halloumi($4.00)
  • Ploughman's sharing plate $35.00
    • with pastrami,camemnert,fried halloumi,marinated olives,pickled onion,gherkins,beetroot chutney,smoked butter & toasted ciabatta.
  • House - smoked beef $13.00
    • cheddar,gherkin & wholegrain mustard.
  • Steamed Bao buns $19.00
    • with slow - cooked char siu pork,fresh coriander,roasted peanuts & pickled onion.
  • Creamy balsamic mushrooms $15.00
    • in brioche cob loaf with spinach & tomato.
  • Homemade bagels $13.00
    • with smoked salmon,cream cheese,lemon & rocket.
  • Organic muesli $13.00
    • with LSA, greek yoghurt,poached rhubarb & chia pudding
  • Scotch fillet served on potato gratin with beetroot and horscradish puree, gruyere stuffed mushrooms, bacon wrapped asparagus and ox tail juss $34.50
  • Fresh fish baked with maple smoked salmon herb crust, warm potato and rocket salad, grilled asparagus and citrus hollandise $32.50
  • Cinnamon dusted doughnuts with chocolate and berry jam syringe $14.00
  • Creme brulee with chocolate and mascarpone filled brandy snap $14.00
  • Dark chocolate parfair dome with salted peanut butter and caramel popcorn $14.00
  • Greek yoghurt, lemon & thyme marinated chicken breast with cos leaf salad finished with poached grapes and merlot reduciton $29.50
  • Bowl of fries served with tomato sauce and roasted garlic aioli $8.50
  • Spiced rubbed pork belly with parsnip puree, bok choy, rocket and almond salad topped with radish and apple slaw $32.50
  • Balsamic Mushrooms $16
  • Home Smoked Lamb Rump $30
    • Red Wine & mushroom braised lentils, kumara gnocchi, watercress & parmesan salad
  • Beef & Bean Cheesy Nachos $12
    • With sour cream
  • Pork Belly $30
    • Kumara croquette, sautéed broccoli kamokamo & hazelnuts, local white peach & thyme compote
  • Vines Autumn Trifle $14
  • Focaccia & dips $12
  • Local Fresh Fillet of Fish $30
    • Baked herb crust, potato & caper puree, green beans & lemon butter sauce
  • Bushmere Antipasto Style Sharing Platters $55
  • Fish burger $17.00
  • Chicken burger $17.00
  • -eggs (any style), bacon, mushrooms, sausage, baked beans, spinach, tomato, hash browns $21.50
  • ●Starters
  • Homemade muesli $9.50
  • Big breakfast
  • Rosti stack $16.50
  • Tomatoes, spinach & feta $15.50
  • Side Vegetables $6.00
  • Side Salad $6.00
  • 1 pieces $22
  • Fish & Chips $15.00
  • Steak Sandwich $20.00
    • with lettuce, tomato, caramelised onion, aioli & chunky chips
  • NACHOS $18.00
    • with beef mince, sour cream, guacamole and tasty cheese (Vegetarian option available)
  • Gravy $2.00
  • Vege Stack $22.00
    • roast vegetables on a bed of spinach, topped with grilled halloumi cheese
  • ROASTED WINTER CHICKEN $23 / $33
    • Chicken served on creamy mash with red onion jam, apricot puree & wilted greens
  • MINI HOT-DOGS $14.00
    • Mini American hot dogs with onion & jalapeño relish
  • SOHO CHOWDER $23 / $32
    • Soho seafood chowder favourite, with mussels, shrimps, market fish & served with garlic bread
  • EVANS BACON BENE $17.00
    • Evans bacon, mushrooms, poached eggs,toast & hollandaise
  • SHRIMP CROQUETTES $13.00
    • Shrimp & potato croquettes served with curry mayo
  • SEAFOOD PAELLA $39.00
    • Seafood paella of squid, prawns, mussels with panko crumbed fish on top
  • MARKET FISH LAKSA SALAD $24 / $33
    • Panko crumbed market fish served on a shrimp & laksa udon noodle salad with pickled vegetables
  • BREAD PLATTER $30.00
    • Fresh & toasted bread, cheese, grapes, hummus, relish, aioli, olive dukkah, gherkins, olive oil & balsamic
  • Bacon $6.0
  • Lemon pepper calamari served upon cos lettuce salad w/ garlic aioli $14.0
  • Breads & Dip Platter $38.0
    • Grilled focaccia, pickles, preserves, dips, cheeses, smoked salmon & cured meats
  • 3 Egg Omelette $19.5
    • Tomato, onion & mozzarella w/ bacon, toast & hollandaise sauce
  • Blue Cheese Mash $8.5
  • toast $4.0
  • Fries $7.0
  • hash browns $4.0
The Rivers Restaurant and Bar

The Rivers Restaurant and Bar

location

Address

1 Gladstone Road, Gisborne, Gisborne, Gisborne, 4010, New Zealand

phone

Phone

08633733

clock

Opened hours

Monday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM, Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM, Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM, Thursday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM, Friday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM, Saturday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM, Sunday: 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM
price range

Price

$10 - $20

type

Type

None

service level

Service

Table Service

cuisine

Cuisine

Bar , British , European , Gluten Free , Irish , New Zealand , Pub Food , Vegetarian

features

Features

Wheelchair accessible ,  Reservations ,  After-hours ,  Breakfast ,  Waitstaff ,  Cheap Eats ,  Television ,  Groups ,  Quick Bites ,  Lunch ,  Bar Scene ,  Seating ,  Highchairs Available ,  Local cuisine ,  Special Occasion Dining ,  Serves Alcohol ,  Dinner ,  Child-friendly ,  Full Bar

Location
1 Gladstone Road, Gisborne, Gisborne, Gisborne, 4010, New Zealand